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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
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Subject: Re: __P macro question 
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 02:20:18 PST, Terry Lambert wrote:

> For what it's worth, I consider __P() to be incredibly ugly,
> but to be a necessary evil to ensure code portability.

Someone else pointed out that conversion from ANSI C to K&R C with
respect to __P() is probably scriptable.

I don't suppose you have a script like that lying around, for inclusion
in src/tools/tools? :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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